Rare first edition, privately printed in small numbers, of this offprint from the Recueil des notices et mémoires de la Société archéologique de Constantine, vol. XXIV.
Only two copies recorded in the French collective catalogue (BnF and Lyon).
Vertical crease visible throughout the booklet.
Preserved in its original grey paper wrappers, without lettering, with the title and author's name handwritten in pencil.
A member of the Congregation of the White Fathers, particularly active in North Africa, Alfred-Louis Delattre (1850–1932) was first sent as a missionary to Algeria, later becoming chaplain of the Saint-Louis Church in Carthage, and eventually curator of the archaeological museum in Algiers.
Based on the Byrsa Hill in Carthage, he devoted over fifty years of his life to the exploration of the Carthaginian archaeological site, focusing especially on necropolises and early Christian basilicas. Inscribed, dated and signed by Alfred-Louis Delattre at the head of the first page of text.